One night, however, Nita’s mom brings home a live unnatural that she expects Nita to chop up piece by piece on demand doing her best to keep him alive and, thus, fresher for buyers. While her mother hunts, kills, and collects other unnaturals, Nita plays out her love of anatomy by cutting up these creatures so her mom and dad can sell them on the dark web. Nita is a teenage girl who travels the world with her mother living under the radar as an unnatural that can very readily pass as a normal human being. On the flip side of the coin is a dark web-based black market that sells “unnaturals” both whole and in pieces to collectors who want to benefit from their special powers, such as immortality, faster healing, enhanced senses, etc. However, they are very highly legislated against by an international organization known as INHUP “” International Non-Human Police “” which functions as an Interpol of sorts to keep track of and deal with indiscretions committed by such creatures against humans.
Not like pets but as variant races of humanoids attempting to live among us. Imagine an alternate version of our modern Earth where the only real difference is that fantastical creatures are part of our lives. But the official synopsis won me over and made me overlook my trepidations and dive in.
I admit I initially felt this way about reading Rebecca Schaeffer‘s Not Even Bones.
There’s additional risk when that first published novel is announced as part of a planned trilogy before the author has even had the opportunity to toe the waters of publishing success. There’s a risk inherent in reading the first published novel by an otherwise new author.
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